Historical Jesus and Mary Magdalene
Source : Google photo of painting of Jesus and Mary Magdalene
Synopsis : The historical Jesus and Mary Magdalene are of great importance to those who are interested in knowing who really was Jesus and why his wife Mary Magdalene was vilified by the Catholic church in the Bible as a mere prostitute. History shows that Mary was of royal descent and survived by escaping to France where she lays buried.
I found this video that discusses the reasons why the Catholic church denigrates Mary Magdalene as a prostitute and gives her no importance in the life of Jesus although the history and records show that she was indeed married to Jesus and was of royal descent.
Source : U tube
The Catholic Church rigidly follows a certain number of dogmas
that can’t be challenged because the dogmas make it the foundation of the
church. One such dogma is that Jesus died on the cross and rose after a few
days to ascend to heaven. Another is that he was not married and Mary Magdalene
was one of his disciples. This is the Jesus of faith that the church promotes.
However, there are a certain number of discrepancies between
the Jesus of faith and the historical Jesus so I will today discuss these
discrepancies although it does not change anything because dogmas will remain
dogmas since they relate to faith and not history.
In the book called The
messianic legacy by ( Baigent,
Michael; Leigh, Richard; Lincoln, Henry (1986). The Messianic Legacy.
London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-02185-0.) et al they
mention that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute and was of royal descent who
married Jesus. This was also found in the gospels found in Egypt and in Nag
Hammadi and Qumran scrolls found near Dead Sea in Israel
later. She was forced to flee to Southern France while being pregnant and gave
birth to their son who later married into nobility and ruled France for a long
period as Merovingian kings.
Mary as the wife of Jesus was not acceptable to his followers
for their own reason so she had to leave Israel. While Jesus who did not die on
the cross which is quite well documented was brought down by those nearest to him
right after the crucifixion and kept him hidden in a cave where he received
medical help to heal his wounds. If found by the Romans, they would have made
sure that he was dead this time so he was hidden. So the dogma that he rose
again after the crucifixion is technically true. It takes many days for a
person crucified to die of loss of blood and injuries but Jesus was brought
down soon after the crucifixion because there was a lot of thunder and
lightning and rain that drove away the guards. This is also a historical fact.
According to some accounts, Jesus and Mary (his mother) were
then secretly spirited out of Israel because his life was in danger so they
kept walking with some of his followers toward the east meaning Iraq where
there is a grave of Mary. It means she died there and was buried. Jesus then
continued to walk eastward and reached Kashmir after many months of travel.
Jesus is believed to have settled down in SriNagar where he
married a princess and had many children. There is a church in SriNagar where
they say he was buried in its grounds. This church is called the church of Issa
Masiha meaning the church of Jesus the Messiah. The descendants of Jesus have
kept a genealogical records of 400 generations to prove that they descended
from Jesus.
Let us now go back to southern France where his wife Mary
Magdalene gave birth to his son and
died. There is a church in her name ( photo) and a grave where she was buried
that pilgrims visit in large numbers.
Source : Google photo of Church of Mary Magdalene in France
Source : Google photo of Rennes le chateau
This mountain village of Rennes le chateau in the Pyrenees
mountains had a dilapidated church where
an impoverished priest lived and one day while renovating his church came
across a document of parchment that he found . The content of the parchment was
so explosive that he was astounded and traded this document with the secret
society called Prieury de Sion who paid him a very large sum of money ( todays
term nearly USD 50 million ) that the poor father used to renovate his church
completely and built additional buildings. He never disclosed where he got so
much money and what was in the document that someone paid so much money for. He
died with this mystery intact.
I will copy and paste here what I found on this subject in
Wikipedia.
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his
mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enabled him to amass and
spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure
and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern
Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret
societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,
300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive at the core is not
material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial
proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village to all the way
to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It
involves nothing less than the Holy Grail.
What if everything you think you know about Jesus is wrong?
In the sequel to ‘The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail’ Michael Baigent reveals
the truth and tackles controversial questions, such as whether or not Christ
survived the crucifixion.
Twenty years ago Michael Baigent and his colleagues stunned
the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene
married and founded a holy bloodline. His bestselling book ‘The Holy Blood and
The Holy Grail’ (with co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh) became an
international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's
novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’. Now, with two additional decades of research behind
him, Baigent's ‘The Jesus Papers’ presents explosive new evidence that
challenges everything we know about the life and death of Jesus.
• Who could have aided and abetted Jesus and why?
• Where could Jesus have gone after the crucifixion?
• What is the truth behind the creation of the New Testament?
• Who is working to keep the truth buried and why?
• Where could Jesus have gone after the crucifixion?
• What is the truth behind the creation of the New Testament?
• Who is working to keep the truth buried and why?
Taking us back to sites that over the last twenty years he
has meticulously explored, studied, and in some instances excavated for the
first time, Baigent provides a detailed account of his groundbreaking
discoveries, including many never-before-seen photos.
In The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Baigent,
Leigh and Lincoln posit the existence of a secret
society known as the Priory of
Sion, which is supposed to have a long history starting in 1099
and had illustrious Grand Masters including Leonardo da
Vinci and Isaac
Newton. According to the authors' claims, the Priory of Sion is
devoted to installing the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Franks from
457 to 751, on the thrones of France and the rest of Europe. It is also said to
have created the Knights
Templar as its military arm and financial branch.
The authors re-interpreted the Dossiers Secrets in
the light of their own interest in undermining the Roman Catholic Church's
institutional reading of Judeo-Christian history.
Contrary to Plantard's ( current grand master of the Priory de sion)
initial Franco-Israelist claim that the Merovingians
were only descended from the Tribe of
Benjamin, they asserted that the Priory of Sion protects
Merovingian dynasts because they are the lineal descendants
of the historical Jesus and his alleged wife, Mary
Magdalene, traced further back to King David. According
to them, the legendary Holy Grail is
simultaneously the womb of saint Mary
Magdalene and the sacred royal
bloodline she gave birth to, and the Church tried to kill off all
remnants of this bloodline and their supposed guardians, the Cathars and
the Templars, in order for popes to
hold the episcopal throne through the apostolic succession of Peter without
fear of it ever being usurped by
an antipope from
the hereditary succession of Mary Magdalene.
Note : One French King who had borrowed enormous sums from
the Templars to fight his never ending
wars invited them all to a secret meeting to sort out his debts but had them
all assassinated. But some Templars stayed back fearing a trap and hid their
enormous wealth somewhere that is yet to be discovered. Perhaps only the Priory
de Sion knows about it.( AKC)
The authors therefore concluded that the modern goals of the
Priory of Sion are:
- the
public revelation of the tomb and shrine of Sigebert
IV as well as the lost treasure of the Temple in Jerusalem,
which supposedly contains genealogical records that prove the Merovingian
dynasty was of the Davidic
line, to facilitate Merovingian restoration in France;
- the
re-institutionalization of chivalry and
the promotion of pan-European nationalism;
- the
establishment of a theocratic "United States of Europe":
a Holy European Empire politically and religiously unified through
the imperial cult of a
Merovingian Great Monarch who occupies both
the throne of Europe and the Holy
See; and
- the
actual governance of Europe residing with the Priory of Sion through
a one-party European Parliament.
The authors also incorporated the antisemitic and anti-Masonic tract
known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion into
their story, concluding that it was actually based on the master plan of the
Priory of Sion. They presented it as the most persuasive piece of evidence for
the existence and activities of the Priory of Sion by arguing that the original
text on which the published version of The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion was based had nothing to do with Judaism or an
"international Jewish conspiracy", as
it issued from a Masonic
body practicing the Scottish
Rite which incorporated the word "Zion" in
its name. Per Baigent et al, the text was not intended to be
released publicly, but was a program for gaining control of Freemasonry as
part of a strategy to infiltrate and reorganise church and state according
to esoteric Christian principles.
After a
failed attempt to gain influence in the court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Sergei
Nilus was supposed to have changed the original text to forge
an inflammatory tract in 1903 in order to discredit the esoteric clique
around Papus by
implying they were Judaeo-Masonic conspirators, but
he ignored some esoteric Christian elements, which hence remained unchanged in
the published antisemitic canard.
Source : Wikipedia
The church and the grave of Mary Magdalene in the cathedral of
St Maximin in Provence where her skull is preserved is now a pilgrimage site where untold number
of people visit every year because they believe that Mary Magdalene was the
wife of Jesus and is buried there.
Source : Google photo of the cathedral of St. Maximin in Provence
, France
Source : Google photo of the grave of Mary Magdalene in the
cathedral of St Maximin in Provence, France
Source : Google photo of the skull of Mary Magdalene at the
Cathedral of St. Maximin la St Baume in Provence, France
The Vatican denies it and says it is not true because it runs
contrary to the Vatican doctrine. It is also true that the New Testament
excludes many gospels that were found in Egypt and elsewhere because they
contradict what the Church preaches but experts who examined such gospels in
detail say that the gospels are original.
I do not know how authentic the story of Jesus in Kashmir is
because that too is debunked by the Vatican but there is a church in Sri Nagar
in Kashmir and there is a genealogical record of 400 generations.
Jesus of history generates considerable interest among
Biblical scholars who continue to uncover ancient documents and artifacts that
paints a different picture of Jesus that makes him more human and approachable
so I like it.
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